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The Corrections Commission of Northwest Ohio votes, nine to one, in favor of a temporary wage increase for jail employees. Workers at CCNO will receive an additional $2 per hour, effective from Dec. 27, 2020, through April 3rd of this year.

Two people are hurt in a crash caused by icy road conditions in DeKalb on SR 327. Officials tell reporters the driver of a Jeep lost control while negotiating a curve on the frozen roadway. The vehicle hits a pickup at a stop sign on CR 34. The two vehicles …

Two people in DeKalb County are in an area hospital after a rollover crash on C.R. 23, between Waterloo and Ashley. Police respond…they find a car, flipped on its top, with debris scattered over the roadway. Two people, Lance Barnhart and Dawson Murray of Ashley, were outside the vehicle when …

The Ohio curfew order has been extended for another three weeks. The State Department of Health Director, Stephanie McCloud, signs the health order. The 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew now goes on until Jan. 23. Exemptions include going to work, obtaining necessary food, medical care or social services. The …

At last check, Williams County has had 2,290 total cases of COVID-19…an increase of 155, since Christmas. Officials tell reporters they have resulted in 117 hospitalizations and 48 deaths. There are 1,758 people who have recovered. Statewide, there have been 700,380 cases. 38,334 are in the hospital. 8,962 people have …

The Ohio Supreme Court reverses course and decides not to hear an appeal by a convicted school shooter. The court dismissed Ely Serna’s case in an opinion that listed it as improvidently accepted, without further explanation. Serna was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison for a 2017 shooting …

Fetal remains from surgical abortions in Ohio must be cremated or buried…under a bill signed by Gov., DeWine. The bill updates a current state law, requiring that aborted fetuses be disposed of in a humane manner, but humane is not further defined. DeWine has yet to act on another abortion-related …

Testing shows potentially harmful chemicals, known as PFAS, aren’t widely contaminating the more than 1,500 public drinking water systems in Ohio. That’s according to the state’s Environmental Protection Agency. Those manmade chemicals, sometimes called “forever chemicals” because they persist in the environment, are used in products such as carpeting, cookware …

Tolby Fleming…the Defiance man, accused of restraining a woman and then raping her…enters a guilty plea in an area courtroom. Gross sexual imposition and kidnapping charges apply in the case. Judge, Joseph Schmenk orders a pre-sentence investigation and continues Fleming’s $150,000 cash bond with a 10% allowance provision. He is …

The City of Bryan passes its annual budget. In comes to about a 9% reduction in total funds compared to the 2020 budget…reduced from $62 million dollars to $57 million, this year. The most notable cutback in the budget?…enterprise funds…at BMU…pared from $37.5 million in 2020 to $32 million, now. …